After discovering that the spy agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension, a low-level UN bureaucrat in Berlin is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue and danger and must determine if he can trust his near-identical counterpart in the other world.

Counterpart season 1 is a sci-fi spy thriller from the Starz Channel.
The events of Starz tv show unfold in modern Berlin. The protagonist is an ordinary UN agency employee, Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons), who is married to Emily Burton Silk (Olivia Williams). Unexpectedly Silk finds out that his organization is not just a bureaucratic office. It executes a secret function – maintaining communication with a parallel world. There is a close interaction between the two counter worlds, even there is the exchange of prisoners. It turns out that “on the other side” Silk has a double, who is his complete opposite. From this moment, private employee Howard Silk plunges into a world of deadly intrigues and government conspiracies. Moreover, the protagonist, in order to stay alive, can confide only to his dangerous counterpart in the chaos that has erupted in the new episodes of the season 1 Counterpart tv series.

The next chapter of “Counterpart” explores the question of how strongly the decisions we make during our lives can change the course of events. Recall that first two Howards (J.K. Simmons) collaborated and agreed to exchange lives in order to stop the mysterious killer who is able to move between worlds. But it seems that they, being in alien universes, turned against each other. Howard Alpha will have to reveal dark edges of character, if he wants to survive in the mysterious prison. Howard Prime, in turn, will try to try on the mask of the good-natured in order to adapt to a different reality and steal the work and family of his twin. Without knowing it, our counterparts will begin to resemble each other more and more ...